Abortion+Deaths+from+Anesthesia

These women are some of those who died from mistakes or mishaps relating to anesthesia administered for abortions. For more about the underlying causes of deaths like these, see Anesthesia or Analgesia Related Deaths of Women From Legal Abortion: The Need for Increased Regulation

After K.B.'s death, the health department investigated and found a mystery: K.B.'s chart listed her post-operative condition as "pink, responsive, alert," even though she had gone into full cardio-respiratory arrest by the time indicated on the assessment.
 * K. B.**

Deanna was only 13 years old when she was given massive doses of Brevital for an abortion by Steve Lichtenberg.
 * @Deanna Bell**

Brenda ended up in a hospital with liver failure, and in April, 1987. The death certificate attributed her death to liver damage and halothane anesthesia poisoning.
 * @Brenda Benton**

Janet's ex-husband sued Knight on behalf of the couple's children, alleging that Knight had administered a fatal dose of anesthesia while preparing Janet for the abortion.
 * Janet Lally Blaum**

Gwendolyn was about to undergo an elective abortion at Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia when she reacted to anesthesia and died.
 * Gwendolyn Cliett**

Mary Davies is the only woman known to have died from abortion related complications under the care of famed illegal abortionist Dr. Robert Spencer.
 * Mary Davies**

The Orange County Sheriff's Department medical examiner blamed the death on cardiorespiratory arrest due to the anesthesia, although he also found "a thick adherent layer of fibrinous material containing moderate numbers of inflammatory infiltrates" in Laniece's uterus.
 * Laniece Dorsey**

Former criminal abortionist Milan Vuitch had been operating his clinic without a license for two years when 32-year-old Jeannie English came to him for an abortion in January of 1980. Vuitch administered general anesthesia for Jeannie, and she never woke up.
 * Georgianna "Jeannie" English**

Thirty-four-year-old Debra M. Gray went to Hillview Women's Medical Center for an abortion in mid-July, 1989. A nurse injected her with a fast-acting barbiturate to prepare her for the abortion. Debra went into cardiac arrest.
 * Debra Gray**

Donna's sister, who was in the waiting room, became alarmed at the intense staff activity, and asked a staffer about her sister. She was told Donna was fine. Then she saw an ambulance pull up to the building and stepped outside, where she observed Donna being transferred into the emergency vehicle.
 * Donna Heim**

Twenty-four-year-old Patricia King went to Dean H. Diment in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for an abortion in early May, 1987. Patricia went into cardiac arrest after being injected with anesthetic.
 * Patricia King**

Suzanne awoke, paralyzed, after four months in a coma following her abortion at Maryland's notorious Hillview abortion mill. She died after three years in a nursing home.
 * Suzanne Logan**

Seventeen-year-old Deborah had languished for two months in a coma, hospitalized after an abortion at Medical Care Center in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
 * Deborah Ann Lozinski**

Dawn was one of two patients -- both, coincidentally, named Dawn -- who died after anesthesia complications at Eastern Women's Center.
 * @Dawn Mack**

Gail vomited and choked during her abortion at Mt. Sinai in New York.
 * Gail Mazo**

Mitsue went into cardiac arrest during her abortion, convulsed, and went into a coma from which she never recovered.
 * @Mitsue Mohar**

Venus lingered nearly six years in a vegetative state after her safe and legal abortion at New York's Eastern Women's Center.
 * @Venus Ortiz**

Mary Ann was 37 years old when she underwent her fatal abortion and tubal ligation.
 * Mary Ann Page**

Catherine languished in a coma for seven months before dying of complications from an abortion done at a National Abortion Federation member facility.
 * @Catherine Pierce**

Thirteen-year-old Dawn's parents didn't know anything was amiss, until they got a phone call to come to the hospital right away, that Dawn was "fighting for her life."
 * Dawn Ravenell**

Jacqueline underwent an abortion at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta in late August, 1986. Due to inadequate oxygenation during general anesthesia, Jacqueline lapsed into a coma. She died in early September.
 * @Jacqueline Reynolds**

Annie traveled from New Jersey to New York in 1971, for the safe, legal abortion that killed her.
 * "Annie" Roe**

Roxanne traveled from Michigan to New York for the safe-and-legal abortion that took her life.
 * "Roxanne" Roe**

An autopsy found toxic concentrations of Lidocaine in Stacy's blood. Her parents sued, and a jury awarded them $25.3 million for the wrongful death of their daughter.
 * @Stacy Ruckman**

In June of 1979, National Abortion Federation member Atlanta Women's Pavillion rose to new levels of incompetence when staff there managed to fatally injure two teenage abortion patients in less than an hour.
 * Angela Scott/Dolores Smith**

**Diane Watson** None of the four physicians on the premises performed CPR on Diane after she went into cardiac arrest.

Robin went into cardiac arrest in the recovery room, and was transferred by ambulance to a hospital. She remained in a coma until her death in early August, 1981.
 * @Robin Wells**

Tanya was not adequately monitored in the recovery room of Moshe Hachamovitch's abortion facility.
 * @Tanya Williamson**

Darlene's fatal abortion was performed in Temple University Hospital.
 * @Darlene Wood**